80 AAP volunteers held for protest near Goa Assembly

Nearly 80 AAP volunteers were placed under preventive arrest today when they were protesting close to Secretariat in Porvorim near here, where the state Assembly session is underway.

The AAP volunteers were marching towards the Assembly complex protesting against the failure of the legislators to raise an issue about Dilip Malavankar, brother-in-law of Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar who was arrested last year for allegedly taking bribe at his office in Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC).

“Not a single legislator spoke about Malavankar during the ongoing session. The issue should have been raised on the floor of the House. We had organised protests to highlight this failure of legislators,” AAP Goa spokesman Rupesh Shinkre told PTI, after the arrest of 80 volunteers.

Shinkre alleged that few volunteers were subjected to physical harassment by police who beat them after the arrest.

The capital city witnessed traffic chaos when AAP protesters were stopped on Mandovi bridge, which leads to the Assembly complex.